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Re: protocol: unrecognized protocolOp tag

At 07:12 AM 1/3/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>[Protocol] 4.1.1 (Message Envelope) says:
>
>   If (...) tag of the protocolOp is not recognized as a request, (...)
>   then the server SHOULD return the Notice of Disconnection
>   described in Section 4.4.1, with the resultCode set to protocolError,
>   and MUST immediately close the connection.
>
>In this case, I think it would be more useful if the server gave a
>normal protocolError response and kept the connection open.  That way, a client could test for the existence of a message type extension simply by trying to use it.

How is the server to know what the normal response (assuming there
is one) to the unrecognized request PDU is?

Kurt